"Contemplation,
serenity, meditation - qualities that are antithetical to the
hard-driving, ladder-climbing Western culture, but important
to adherents of Buddhism and non-negotiable in the Buddhist
monastery in Thailand that I visited over and over again.

During
one afternoon I was photographing a monk who was quietly studying
with his cat which was patiently waiting to be fed. The light
transformed what would seem to be an ordinary scene into an
exceptional image. The cat and the monk seemed to mirror each
other's contemplative mood, and both seemed to be privy to some
unspoken secret."